entreat是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. &vi. 恳求,这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢,今天小编就带您了解一下。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He easily eluded me and said 'Be calm!I entreat you to hear me before you give vent to your hatred on my devoted head.
-- I entreat you not to reason with me any more.
-- I may be absent a month or two; but do not interfere with my motions, I entreat you; leave me to peace and solitude for a short time; and when I return, I hope it will be with a lighter heart, more congenial to your own temper.
-- My dear son, I entreat you never to make such an as-sertion again.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I had pretended with myself that there was nothing of this taint in the arrangement; but when I went up to my little room on this last night, I felt compelled to admit that it might be so, and had an impulse upon me to go down again and entreat Joe to walk with me in the morning.
-- And I entreat you to say a word for me to Mr. Jaggers, and to represent to him that, all circumstances considered, he ought to be more open with me!"
-- Above all things, I resolved that I would not entreat him, and that I would die making some last poor resistance to him.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then the other answered, as if very unwillingly, 'A little space I may allow thee to sit here, if thou wilt reward me well and entreat me kindly; but thou must tarry yet an hour below, till I have learnt some little matters that are yet unknown to me.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Upon the strength of this reasoning, I ventured to address them in the following manner: 'Gentlemen, if you be conjurers, as I have good cause to believe, you can understand my lan-guage; therefore I make bold to let your worships know that I am a poor distressed Englishman, driven by his misfor-tunes upon your coast; and I entreat one of you to let me ride upon his back, as if he were a real horse, to some house or village where I can be relieved.
-- I dwell the longer upon this sub- 381ject from the desire I have to make the society of an English Yahoo by any means not insupportable; and therefore I here entreat those who have any tincture of this absurd vice, that they will not presume to come in my sight.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Will you entreat him to take it?'
-- I only entreat you to believe, my favourite child, that I have meant to do right.'
-- Let me entreat you, for your own sake and for hers, to be more quiet.'
-- 'Let me seriously entreat you to reconsider this, Bounderby,' urged Mr. Gradgrind, 'before you commit yourself to such a decision.'
-- If, in remembrance of the pains bestowed upon you there, you can persuade yourself in any degree to disregard your present interest and release my son, I entreat and pray you to give him the benefit of that remembrance.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I do assure you that I am, and do entreat you to believe that I am, in plain earnest.'
-- I entreat you to do that.'
-- That from the father mentioned that most unexpectedly finding himself in the novel position of having been disappointed of a remittance from the City on which he had confidently counted, he took up his pen, being restrained by the unhappy circumstance of his incarceration during three-and-twenty years (doubly underlined), from coming himself, as he would otherwise certainly have done took up his pen to entreat Mr Clennam to advance him the sum of Three Pounds Ten Shillings upon his I.O.U., which he begged to enclose.
-- 'I beg and entreat you, ma'am ' Arthur interposed.
-- And it is then, Mr Clennam, then more than at any time, that I beg and entreat you to remember him, and sometimes to keep him company when you can spare a little while; and to tell him that you know I was fonder of him when I left him, than I ever was in all my life.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "'Then I entreat you, tell me if to the best of your own convictions, this your story is in substance really true?
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I entreat you not to suppose that I moved this way in order to beg for a partner.'
-- I shall entreat his pardon for not having done it earlier.
-- She looked at her father to entreat his interference, lest Mary should be singing all night.
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